Stress & health : biological and psychological interactions /
Stress and health
William R. Lovallo
- Third edition
- xxii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and indexes.
Psychosocial models of health and disease -- History of the concept of stress -- Homeostatic regulation : normal function and stress responses -- Physical and psychological stress -- Central nervous system integration of the psychological stress -- Response -- Stress and the endocrine system -- The immune system, stress, and behavior -- Helplessness, coping, and health -- Genes , stress, and behavior -- Individual differences in reactivity to stress -- Health implications of exaggerated and blunted stress -- Reactivity -- Behavior, stress, and health.